Re:Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone
by mel919 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:17PM
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As a former OneDrive user the service was terrible, I've had issues with sync and all of the clients - web, mobile and desktop. I've read similiar opinions. From my experience the quality of OneDrive is really poor; it's not really a competitive product. Results my vary and most certainly will but that's the way I see OneDrive. Dropbox on the other hand... just works.
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OneDrive sync has improved dramatically over the years. It's still not as good as dropbox, but OneDrive has this new popup window that shows you a bunch of information about your files when they sync and are updated. That part of the UX is better than dropbox.
I tried OneDrive again a couple of weeks ago, since I have an Office 365 subscription anyway. Sync was still slow for me compared to Dropbox, sometimes does not sync everything correctly, and used 700MB of memory for a nearly-empty OneDrive.
Dropbox just works and that's worth 10 Euro per month to me, it saves me heaps of time.